NASCAR’s season 2023 kicks off with the 65th Daytona 500, the sport’s biggest and most prestigious race.
The biggest sporting event in the United States, Super Bowl LVII, just finished the NFL’s regular season. This indicates that the sports landscape calendar has to be turned, and the Daytona 500 is the ideal place to begin if you’re searching for something HUGE to watch and wager on this weekend.
The sands of Daytona Beach are the sands of time that have now covered 75 years of NASCAR racing, down to the minuscule grains. The sands of Daytona served as the setting for some of NASCAR’s richest and most famous early races and eventually served as the basis for both the Daytona International Speedway and the sport’s biggest event.
The 65th running of “The Great American Race” will be held on Sunday in Daytona Beach, Florida. It will be broadcast on FOX and the FOX Sports App.
The 2023 NASCAR Cup Series
NASCAR is unique in that the auto-racing sport opens the season with its signature event.
The 65th edition of the Daytona 500 will kick off the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season as usual. The Daytona 500, the largest race in NASCAR and one that need little introduction, is the kind of spectacle that can single-handedly define and mold a driver’s career, as it did last year when Austin Cindric went from a rookie in the Cup Series to the winner of the Daytona 500.
The seven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, who is making a comeback to NASCAR, Kyle Busch, who is running in his 22nd and final Daytona 500, and Kevin Harvick are among the many competitors seeking for victory in The Great American Race this year.
The Daytona 500 will be broadcast at 2:30 PM ET on Fox and streamed on fuboTV (Try it for free)
Live updates
Alex Bowman sits on pole position for The Great American Race for the third time. Bowman qualified on Wednesday night with a lap of 181.686 mph, earning the pole position for today’s race as Hendrick Motorsports once more swept the front row.
Top 10 and the full starting lineup for the Daytona 500:
1 – #48 – Alex Bowman
2 – #5 – Kyle Larson
3 – #22 – Joey Logano
4 – #10 – Aric Almirola
5 – #20 – Christopher Bell
6 – #2 – Austin Cindric
7 – #12 – Ryan Blaney
8 – #9 – Chase Elliott
9 – #17 – Chris Buescher
10 – #6 – Brad Keselowski
Alex Bowman is the fastest man in Daytona once again. #DAYTONA500 pic.twitter.com/lZgIPCNeWZ
— Steven Taranto (@STaranto92) February 16, 2023
Here are the past 10 Daytona 500 winners:
2022 Austin Cindric
2021 Michael McDowell
2020 Denny Hamlin
2019 Denny Hamlin
2018 Austin Dillon
2017 Kurt Busch
2016 Denny Hamlin
2015 Joey Logano
2014 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
2013 Jimmie Johnson
2012 Matt Kenseth
